By Gordon Williamson

This can be the second one publication in a two-part sequence concerning the German Commanders of global warfare II and covers exceptional commanders from the Waffen-SS, the Luftwaffe and the military. The commanders coated contain such recognized names as Josef Dietrich, Theodor Eicke, Kurt Meyer, Joachim Peiper and Karl Donitz and the e-book information their interesting wartime reviews. the color plates are within the uniquely meticulous sort of the revered global conflict II illustrator Malcolm McGregor.

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And 5. Fallschirmjager Divisions. Meindl was promoted to the rank of General der Fallschirmtruppe in April 1944. SS-Panzergrenadier Division 'Gotz von Berlichingen' against US forces in the area around St L6. After two months of bitter fighting against both US and British troops the corps was pushed eastward into the Falaise Pocket, and almost annihilated. Meindl was awarded the Oakleaves to his Knight's Cross on 31 August 1944. Fallschirmarmee commanded by Gen Student (qv). Armee. These divisions were forced to surrender in April and March 1945 respectively, in the Ruhr and near Nurburgring; but Meindl was decorated with the Swords on 8 May 1945 - the last day of the European war.

Following a debacle in December 1942, when a powerful naval force including the pocket battleship Lutzow and heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper attempted to intercept a British convoy and were driven off by relatively weak escort forces, Hitler flew into a rage and threatened to scrap all the major units of the fleet and mount all their heavy weapons in shore batteries. Raeder immediately offered his resignation, recommending Karl Donitz as his successor. Tried and found guilty at the Nuremberg trials in 1946 on charges of waging an aggressive war and war crimes, Raeder was sentenced to life imprisonment.

2 In September 1937 he took command of U-23, a small Type II coastal boat. Promoted to Kapitanleutnant on 1 June 1939, after the outbreak of war he carried out mine-laying patrols in the North Sea off the Scottish coast; he was awarded both classes of the Iron Cross, as well as qualifying for the U-Boat War Badge. His first sinking came on 12 January 1940 when he torpedoed the 10,000-ton freighter Danmark, and the following month he sank the destroyer HMS Daring. In all, Kretschmer carried out eight patrols totalling 94 days at sea with U-23.

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